Rich G, I think that's a bunch of crap. All you guys talk about how bad the fishing is out on the coast these days, yet I've had a couple of my best days in 35 years of steelhead fishing this season on the coast. In the old days when my Dad was a young guy, nobody went steelhead fishing until January, because on most rivers there weren't any fish around until then. The state took Chambers Creek stock, an early stock and planted it all over, and then people started fishing in December. The early part of the wild runs were always a small segment of the overall run. Go back and read some of Enos Bradner's books. You guys who are religious about catch and release want it so bad you'll make the runs look bad just to get there. The end justifies the means. Now I support catch and release of wild steelhead in almost every instance, but when a run is strong there's is nothing unethical about killing a fish now and then. For christ's sake its the healthiest protein on earth and its part of the way people have been living for millenia. Do you think the Game Department is just lying about all the redds they count on the Sol Duc and Calawah? I wish the tribes would ease up on the netting so we could have even better fishing, but they are't wiping out any runs. You guys need to lighten up and be more tolerant of what other people think. And I've never hooked a winter steelhead deep on bait, and every one I've let go I was confident would survive. No go have a coniption fit...